Senior Microsoft Fabric Data Platform Architect

Tavant; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tavant is seeking a Microsoft Fabric Technical Architect to lead architecture, design, and implementation of modern data platform solutions on Microsoft Fabric. You will drive scalable lakehouse/warehouse design and robust CI/CD practices while guiding data engineering teams.

The role requires deep expertise in data platforms, orchestration, and performance tuning, with a focus on Medallion patterns, Data Vault, and semantic modeling.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in data engineering or data platform roles.
• 2+ years architecting and implementing on Microsoft Fabric.
• Proficient in SQL with performance tuning and analytics-ready modeling.
• Hands-on Azure Data Factory or Fabric pipelines with orchestration patterns.
• Strong PySpark development for scalable transformations.
• Experience implementing CI/CD for data workloads (Azure DevOps/GitHub).
• Solid data engineering fundamentals: ingestion, transformations, orchestration, testing.
• Knowledge of Medallion architecture, Data Vault, and related patterns.
• Experience with semantic layer creation and DAX functions.
• Capacity planning and workload optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of data platforms on Microsoft Fabric.
• Drive scalable lakehouse/warehouse design and CI/CD practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business needs into scalable architectures.
• Mentor teams on Fabric technologies and best practices.

Skills

12+ years experience

Microsoft Fabric

SQL

Azure Data Factory

PySpark

CI/CD for data workloads

Data engineering fundamentals

Medallion architecture

Data Vault

Semantic layer & DAX

Orchestration patterns

Capacity planning

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft Purview

Power BI

Fabric DP-600

Fabric DP-700

Azure DevOps/GitHub

Job description

Tavant is seeking a Microsoft Fabric Technical Architect to lead architecture, design, and implementation of modern data platform solutions on Microsoft Fabric. You will drive scalable lakehouse/warehouse design and robust CI/CD practices while guiding data engineering teams.

The role requires deep expertise in data platforms, orchestration, and performance tuning, with a focus on Medallion patterns, Data Vault, and semantic modeling.